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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

To perform and thrive, you have to be able to adapt to an ever changing environment. If you resist and defy change, your company is not long for this world. Here are a few examples from decades of change management consulting projects of now-defunct organizations that, in order to avoid disaster did not.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

As I speak with industry executives, a common refrain is “I’ve done all the easy stuff.” Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. A recent Navigant survey found that U.S. As the U.S.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business

That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing. What does it allow us to do differently, and how will that change the way we do things in the future? How organizations are changing.

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The Significance of Flexibility in Organizational Structure

Clarity Consultants

Organizational structure describes the day-to-day set-up of a company, with everything from how many managers you have to the skillsets your employees possess to how decisions are made. Which one you choose will depend on your business’s size, industry, and goals. In flat structures, senior management has less direct control.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business

This means that the technologies necessary for successful space-faring, particularly human space travel beyond low earth orbit, cannot all be developed by a single organization. The space industry is now a global, multi-faceted, multi-stakeholder endeavor, where commercial activity accounts for the lion’s share of value.

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Excellent Performance From People: Follow the ‘10 Commandments!’

Confessions of a Consultant

The ‘workers’ (like myself) wore blue overalls; the foremen had brown coats; the supervisors were kitted out in white; the management sported double-breasted suits (the fashion at that time). This ordered hierarchy was an efficient way to denote ‘who did what’. try to measure embedded value in the pensions industry).

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